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Date "BURGUNDIAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Burgundian A Burgundian blow, i.e. decapitation. The Duc de Biron, who was put to death for treason by Henri IV., was told in his youth, by a fortune-teller, "to beware of a Burgundian blow." When going to execution, he asked who was to be his executioner, and was told he was a man from Burgundy. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Burgundian is either of the following;
1. An extinct language of the Germanic language group spoken by the Burgundians. It was a living language in the 5th century AD in southeast Gaul.
2. An dialect of Old French in the region of Burgundy. Sometimes the Franc-Comptois dialect is referred to as part of the Burgundian group.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Burgundian."
Crosswords: BURGUNDIAN |
| Specialty definitions using "BURGUNDIAN": Ortwine. (references) |
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| "BURGUNDIAN" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.36% of the time. "BURGUNDIAN" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.36% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.64% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 61 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BURGUNDIAN": anglo-burgundian. | |
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| Language | Translations for "BURGUNDIAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Bourgondisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | burgundo, burgunda. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | burgundisch, Burgunder (burgundy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | burgundiai ember, burgundiai, burgundi (Burundi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | borgognone. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | Burgoonagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urgundianbay borgonhês. (various references) burgundisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-g-i-n-n-r-u-u" | |
-2 letters: branding, undaring. | |
-3 letters: banding, barding, brigand, burning, darning, daubing, durning, unbraid, unguard. | |
-4 letters: auburn, auding, baning, baring, daring, durian, during, gradin, guanin, riband, unbind, ungird. | |
-5 letters: augur, bairn, braid, brain, brand, bring, bruin, buran, burin, dinar, drain, garni, grain, grand, grind, guard, inurn, nadir, nubia, rabid, ranid, ruing, unban, unbar, unbid, unrig, urban, urbia. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-g-i-n-n-r-u-u" | |
+4 letters: superabounding. | |
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